According to Sara J. Denning-Bolle, Palamas viewed Barlaam's argument as " dangerously agnostic ".

According to Sara J. Denning-Bolle, Palamas viewed Barlaam's argument as " dangerously agnostic ".

He was raised in the Bible belt as a Christian, but is now an agnostic: " That was a confusing time for me, but I don't miss being misled.

Gadahn described his father as having been " raised agnostic or atheist, but he became a believer in One God when he picked up a Bible left on the beach.

On his return, his deepening speculations led to the inception of Darwin's theory, and he increasingly disbelieved in the Bible, gradually becoming what was later termed an agnostic.

Both conservative Christian scholar Graham Stanton and agnostic Bible scholar Bart Ehrman have asserted that virtually all scholars involved with historical Jesus research believe his existence can be established using documentary and other evidence ; however, scholars such as Paula Fredriksen, Robert Funk and E. P. Sanders hold that much of the material about him in the New Testament should not be taken at face value as it is driven by theological agendas.

I was primarily interested in religion because I wanted to go to heaven " but also stated that she considered herself an agnostic.

Agnostic theists seldom identify primarily as agnostic, and many people who primarily identify as agnostic do not believe in a deity.

Coloureds with Javanese or other Indonesian ancestry may often be regarded as Cape Malay and are primarily Muslims, while the majority of Coloureds are Christian ( generally Protestant ) or agnostic.

Some are agnostic about the causes, while others argue that environmental factors explain all of the differences, or that both genetics and environmental factors are important.

The Times also stated that " it is important to say that even an agnostic, even a behaviorist-materialist ... can read this book with joy.

At this time poets such as Ferdowsi ( who glorified the pre-Islamic Iran and patriotism ), Hafiz ( with his Epicurean view on life ) and Khayyam ( with openly agnostic themed poetry ) had already found their roots among Iranian culture and their works were looked upon as masterpieces of Persian literature.

Some scholars take an agnostic view and consider the Mahāyāna sutras as an anonymous literature, since it can not be determined by whom they were written, and only can be dated firmly to the date when they were translated into another language.

Alongside books on making candy (# 518-" How to Make All Kinds of Candy " by Helene Paquin ) and classic literature (# 246-Hamlet by William Shakespeare ) were ones exploring homosexuality (# 692-" Homo-Sexual Life " by William J Fielding ) and agnostic viewpoints (# 1500-" Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant a Catholic and a Jew " by Clarence Darrow ).

Characteristic is Steinschneider's philosophic testament in the preface to his Arabische Literatur der Juden, in which he who laid the main foundation of the study of Jewish literature and history did not hesitate, at the age of eighty-six, to formulate an agnostic confession de foi.

Teuber described the associative agnostic as having a “ percept stripped of its meaning ,” because the afflicted individual cannot generate unique semantic information to identify the percept, since though it is fully formed, it fails to activate the semantic memory associated with the stimulus.

The imperturbable courtesy of his style is in striking contrast to the violence of his opponents ; and, in spite of his unorthodoxy, he was not an atheist or even an agnostic.

While the rite of Naming was once reserved for the high priests of the Pei ' an religion, modern Pei ' an worldscapers tend to think of their relationships with the gods much more in terms of mental constructs, and Sandow is a confirmed agnostic as far as the objective existence of the gods is concerned.

When asked whether he was an agnostic, Attlee replied " I don't know ".

Regarding his belief system, he doesn't " want to provide a category for people to apply to " because he " would not want convictions reduced to a word " and states, " I have never said, although readers have freely informed me I am an atheist, an agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist — which I am ".

As for his religious views, Chapin was " an agnostic, if not an atheist ".

He became an agnostic, taking as an axiom " the inconvenience of existence ".

His expressed views on creation were that although he was an " agnostic, and not a believer ", it seems to him that " the curtain drawn over the mystery of creation will never be raised by human efforts, at least in the foreseeable future " due to " the circumstances of the big bang-the fiery holocaust that destroyed the record of the past ".

Quental produced finely wrought, pessimistic sonnets inspired by neo-Buddhistic and German agnostic ideas, while Braga, a Positivist, compiled an epic of humanity, the " Visão dos Tempos ".

Wilson an agnostic, was " aghast " when Thacher told him he had " got religion ".

Karr tells of moving from agnostic alcoholic to baptized Catholic of the decidedly " cafeteria " kind, yet one who prays twice daily with loud fervor from her " foxhole ".

( Bradlaugh's then-controversial atheism led Labouchère, a closet agnostic, to refer sardonically to himself as " the Christian member for Northampton ".

Gray denied that investigation of physical causes stood opposed to the theological view and the study of the harmonies between mind and Nature, and thought it " most presumable that an intellectual conception realized in Nature would be realized through natural agencies ".. Thomas Huxley, who strongly promoted Darwin's ideas while campaigning to end the dominance of science by the clergy, coined the term agnostic to describe his position that God's existence is unknowable, and Darwin also took this position, but evolution was also taken up by prominent atheists including Edward Aveling and Ludwig Büchner and it was criticised, in the words of one reviewer, as " tantamount to atheism ".

Baruchel has said that he is " probably agnostic ".

Aged seventeen, he became a socialist, before later taking a further leftist stance by declaring himself a communist and rejecting Christianity, instead defining himself as an " interested agnostic ".

Stone, an agnostic Jew and fellow South Park co-creator, had never heard of Stations of the Cross until Parker explained it to him during a meeting, to which Stone said, " I just thought it was the funniest thing ".

Lord Vansittart in his memoirs said of Crowe: "... a dowdy, meticulous, conscientious agnostic with small faith in anything but his brain and his Britain ".

In his own time, however, Weber was viewed primarily as a historian and an economist.

German philosopher Max Weber interpreted theodicy as a social problem, and viewed theodicy as a " problem of meaning.

Second, Weber showed that economic conduct was an integral part of ideas related to pursuing economic interests, but those ideas have to be viewed separately.

Proponents of world-systems analysis see the world stratification system the same way Karl Marx viewed class ( ownership versus non-ownership of the means of production ) and Max Weber viewed class ( which, in addition to ownership, stressed occupational skill level in the production process ).

However, some have viewed such comments as Engels's attempt to extricate himself from an untenable position: Max Weber and other influential sociological and economic thinker agreed that Marx's views were really unidimensional in regard to economic determinism.

Weber is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon, and it cannot be viewed directly from the Earth's surface.

", Weber investigates the study of the Apocalypse ( the revelation of God ) in the Bible.

Weber reflects on the manner in which the teaching of the Bible are being " recast " by modern worldly Christian churches.

Weber implores his reader to get out of (" worldly times "), come out of organised churches, turn down priests and pastors, walk out and study the Bible alone fellowshipping with God.

After he traversed the whole spectrum of western thought, tradition, civilization, and progress in The Western Tradition, Weber pointed at some of the profound ancient lessons from the Bible and laments the fact that many people today do not read it themselves.